Russia
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- Cucasus Mts.
- stretch from Black to Caspian Sea, contains Mt. Elbrus
- 3 parts of Far Eastern Russia
- Kamchatka Penninsula, Kuril Islands and Sakhalin Islands
- Taiga
- a forest of evergreen trees growing south of the tundra in Russia
- Steppe
- a wide, flat grassland region that stretches from Ukraine to Kazakhstan
- Rus
- Viking traders from Scandanavia, gave russia it's name
- Cyrillic Alphabet
- form of the Greek Alphabet
- Tatars
- Mongol invaders
- Muscovy
- strongest state
- Ivan IV
- Ivan the terrible, first russian czar (song)
- Czar
- emporer of the Russian Empire
- Vladmir Lenin
- Leader of the Bolsheviks, overthrew the russian government(song)
- Bolsheviks
- communist groups (song)
- Josheph Stalin
- Lenins succesor (song)
- Allies of WWII
- UK and US
- consumer goods
- products used at home and in everyday life
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- last soviet leader (song)
- CIS
- commonwealth of Indepentant states
- Nicholas II
- last russian czar(song)
- Russification
- making non ethnic russians become russian by learning language and culture
- Peter Tchaikovsky
- composed music for the Nutcracker (song)
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- wrote about russia under communism (song)
- Russian Heartland
- European section of Russia
- Kremlin
- center of the russian government offices
- Smelter
- Factories that process metal ores
- Matryoshka
- nesting doll
- Habitation fog
- caused by fumes and smoke trapped over siberian cities by very cold weather
- BAM
- Baikal-Amur Mainline(railroad)
- 5 natural recources of Siberia
- timber, diamond, coal, oil, and natural gas
- Kuzbas
- one of siberisas most industrial areas
- Lake Baikal
- worlds deepest lake
- Far East Russia's 2 island areas
- Sakhalin and Hokkaido